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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - September 2024

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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that Illinois has joined an $82.5 million proposed antitrust settlement with Varsity Brands (Varsity). As a result, Illinois consumers who paid to participate in Varsity Brands’...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: August 2024

Social media giant TikTok has been sued by the United States for allegedly collecting data on children under thirteen illegally. The suit claims the app, which is owned by China-based parent company ByteDance, allowed...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Un-Nudify Me: Removal Options for Deepfake Pornography Victims

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has created new challenges that significantly disrupts established legal principles. One facet of AI, with a large potential for abuse, is its seamless...more

Vondran Legal

Red Points sued for Defamation over DMCA takedown notice

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In an interesting case from New York Federal court, a judge denied a motion to dismiss by Defendant Red Points (an anti-piracy protection company) for submitting a take down alleging the sale of counterfeit products by the...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Unmasking Anonymous Copyright Infringers: Where the DMCA, First Amendment, and Fair Use Meet

Can internet service providers necessarily be compelled to unmask anonymous copyright infringers? In an opinion touching on Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoenas, First Amendment concerns, and fair use, the...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Taking Cue from the Supreme Court’s Van Buren Decision, Ninth Circuit Releases New Opinion Holding Scraping of Publicly Available...

On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit earlier this week again affirmed the lower court’s order preliminarily enjoining LinkedIn Corp. (“LinkedIn”) from blocking data analytics company hiQ Labs, Inc.’s...more

Stinson LLP

Music Licensing in the Age of TikTok

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Trends may come and go, but TikTok is likely here to stay. With many people stuck inside during the pandemic and needing inspiration for new hobbies, they turned to TikTok for recipes, books, dances, fashion, makeup and hair,...more

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Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids of Police Encounters Off The Internet?

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In this week's podcast episode of the Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss recent news stories reporting that police officers played copyrighted music during filmed encounters, ostensibly to...more

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The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids of Police Encounters Off The Internet?

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In this week's episode of the Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss recent news stories reporting that police officers played copyrighted music during filmed encounters, ostensibly to keep the...more

Weintraub Tobin

Don’t Film So Close To Me: Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids Of Police Encounters Off The Internet?

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Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of news articles and stories about police officers playing popular music during a citizen/officer interaction that is being filmed by the citizen. For example, Vice reported...more

Jaburg Wilk

Stopping Online Infringement

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Substantively, copyright protection is the same in the digital world and on the internet as in traditional form. The only practical difference is the likelihood that the copyright will be infringed. Works available in cyber...more

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What Do I Do If My Copyrights Are Being Infringed?

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If someone has copied or reproduced your book, article, blog, artwork, photograph or other copyright-protected works without your permission, you have several options. Before using any of these options, be sure that you...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Times They Are A Changin’… and Your Website Terms and Policies Should Too

It is a good time to review your website and its accompanying terms and conditions and privacy policies. From year to year, the legal landscape evolves with changes being driven by technological advancements, shifting...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Pinning Copyright Violations on Pinterest

Does Pinterest encourage copyright violations? According to a new lawsuit filed in California federal court by an award-winning professional photographer, the answer is yes. Harold Davis accused the popular social media...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

NGE IP Focus: Advertising & Social Media

Neal Gerber Eisenberg and Wolters Kluwer have teamed up to bring you NGE IP Focus, a quarterly newsletter dedicated to intellectual property-related legal decisions. In this issue, we focus on advertising and social media,...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Making Your Mark

IP and Social Networks: The Paris District Court Invalidates IP Clauses of Google+ Terms of Use

It’s been rough weather for Google in France. Three weeks after the French ?Data Protection Authority imposed a record fine against Google for non-compliance with the GDPR, the Paris District Court (“Tribunal de Grande...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Case to Watch: Goldman v. Breitbart, involving embedded Tweets of Tom Brady recruiting Kevin Durant in the Hamptons

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The Southern District of New York has teed up an important copyright issue for interlocutory appeal, which could create a circuit split with the Ninth Circuit’s 2006 decision in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. On March...more

Jaburg Wilk

When Social Media Takedown Notices Aren’t Enough

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Social media usage has exploded in recent years and has permanently transformed the way products and services are marketed and sold. Social media platforms include many different online destinations such as social networking...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Will Facebook’s Recent Announcement of Changes to News Feed Affect Legal Immunities for User Content?

Facebook recently announced that it would make changes to its news feed to prioritize content that users share and discuss and material from “reputable publishers.” These changes are part of what Mark Zuckerberg says is a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

If Your Company’s Websites or Blogs Host User-Generated Content, Please Read This Client Alert!

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In the classic rock song “Light My Fire,” ‘60s icon and the Doors’ lead singer Jim Morrison sang, “The time to hesitate is through.” If your company operates a website or blog that hosts user-generated content, and has yet...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Time to Zoom In on Application of DMCA Safe Harbor Defense

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In reversing a district court grant of summary judgment in favor of a social media platform, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered a deeper look at the degree to which the common law of agency affects a safe...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: SCOTUS strikes down law banning sex offenders from social media, denies cert in “dancing baby” case; Germany may...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a North Carolina law that the state has used to prosecute more than 1,000 sex offenders for posting on social media is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Entertainment and Media Litigation Update - June 2017

Ninth Circuit: Website Moderators May Be Agents of ISPs - Why it matters: On April 7, 2017, the Ninth Circuit revived a copyright infringement case filed by a paparazzi group against social media platform LiveJournal that...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Could the Use of Online Volunteers and Moderators Increase Your Company’s Copyright Liability Exposure?

With over one billion websites on the Internet, and 211 million items of online content created every minute, it should come as no surprise that content curation is one of the hottest trends in the Internet industry. We are...more

Stinson LLP

New Safe Harbor Requirement to Maintain Immunity from Copyright Infringement

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Online Service Providers Re-File Your DMCA Agent Designations to Prevent Expiration - If your company has a website that allows third parties to post any kind of content (text, pictures or video), then it may be liable...more

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